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Zapata and the agrarian movement in Mexico

"Zapata lives; the struggle continues"

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He was born on 8 August 1879 and died on 10 April 1919.

He was a leading figure in theMexican Revolution

The main leader of the peasant revolution in the state ofMorelos

The founder of the agrarian movement called Zapatismo.

Emiliano

Zapata

Salazar

Slavery in Mexico

Mexican social and economic system was essentially afeudal system, with large estates controlling much of the land and squeezing out the independent communities of the people who were subsequently forced into debt slavery on thehaciendas.

The Birth of Zapata

1909

Jos Merino

My intention to resign from my position due to my old age and limited abilities to continue the fight for the land rights of the village".

Nomination of individuals as a replacement for Merino as the president of the village council.

The nominations made were: Modesto Gonzales, Bartolo Parral, and Emiliano Zapata.

For many years, he campaigned for the rights of the villagers

First, establishing via ancient title deeds their claims to disputed land, and then pressing the governor of Morelos into action.

Finally, Zapata began making use of armed force.

Revolutionary general

"Commander of theLiberation Army of the South

Zapatas Ideology

Plan de Ayala

Expropriation of the lands of the large landowners

Return of all the commons caught up in previous decades

Nationalization of the property of the enemies of the revolution

Independence of the agrarian movement relative to the bourgeois leadership of the revolution.

[] policy and agrarian reform , which is what can give the welfare and peace that we want: the revolution synthesized or represents the aspirations of millions of men; summarizes the advancement , progress , reform in one word: progress and regeneration of an oppressed country for the feudalism that afflicts more than four centuries ago to the vast majority of Mexicans

Zapata, 1912

Fight against capitalist oppression

Change the economic system in Mexico [socialism and communism]

Freedom for the Mexican peasants

Justice